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    Posted: December 14 2011 at 15:44
Heh, there's a love vibe on that Akropolis cover too admittedly. But of a more, should we say, male bonding type of love...?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2011 at 15:36
Originally posted by historian9 historian9 wrote:

Still a better  LP cover than ELP's "Love Beach.
 
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The original (and very creepy) cover of THE STEVE HOWE ALBUM...hint...look in the water...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2011 at 22:22
Added to Crossover.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 26 2011 at 07:11
I'll agree with David, that's exactly like it sounds to me, I'd only mention the strong Fusion component too (especially the last segment of the first side and the beginning of the second). The vocal lines are very mundane, but they were very ambitious instrumentally and in what composition was concerned. Overall they sound a lot like S.B.B, which is why Eclectic would be my first choice; I'll notify the team.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 26 2011 at 06:21
Nope, that's the whole thing right there. I found out that there are smaller sections with titles within the song though, so the track listing would be this:

1.Half A Million Hours Of Symphony:
1) Overture (2:57)
2) Movement (Birth) (5:50)
3) Movement (Puberty) (6:40)
4) Movement (Adult Age) (6:47)
5) Movement (Old Age) (8:56)
6) Movement (Death) (4:22)

It's been issued as a vinyl (CLP4206), but I don't know if any new editions have come up on CD. I think the label is Denmark Circle Records or just Circle Records.

More info on performers:

-Jens Lund / vocals, rhythm guitar
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Jørn Bennedbæk / guitars
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James Templeton / keyboards
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Hans Johannsen / bass
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James Pearson / drums

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 26 2011 at 02:33
I was playing those two youtubes yesterday evening and I was scratching my head. Do you have more listening samples ?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2011 at 18:26
Seems like another of those albums that lie somewhere in the muddy waters that ebb between Symphonic, Eclectic and Crossover. It's definitely 100% prog though, and pretty decent prog too. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it was either Symphonic or Eclectic (perhaps leaning slightly toward the former) rather than Crossover, but I wouldn't want to try and be any more specific than that. Confused
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2011 at 15:37
Still a better  LP cover than ELP's "Love Beach.

Formed by Jim Templeton (Grand piano, keyboards & composer). In 1980 he created the Cosmic Dust Fusion Band.

"Half A Million Hours Symphony" from 1979, one of those one-track-whole-album things.






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